Chapter 167

Blasphemer <Xpage=153>

Blas*phem"er (?) , n. One who blasphemes.

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God ? Pope.

Blasphemous <Xpage=153>

Blas"phe*mous (?) , a. [L. blasphemus , Gr. <?/ .] Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book ; a blasphemous caricature. " Blasphemous publications."

Porteus.

Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous . Milton.

&hand; Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable, as in the above example.

Blasphemously <Xpage=153>

Blas"phe*mous*ly , adv. In a blasphemous manner.

Blasphemy <Xpage=153>

Blas"phe*my (?) , n. [L. blasphemia , Gr. <?/ : cf. OF. blasphemie .] 1. An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

&hand; When used generally in statutes or at common law, blasphemy is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence.

2. Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.

Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.

-blast <Xpage=153>

-blast (?) . [Gr. <?/ sprout, shoot.] A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth , formation ; as, bio blast , epi blast , meso blast , etc.

Blast <Xpage=153>

Blast (?) , n. [AS. bl<?/st a puff of wind, a blowing; akin to Icel. bl\'bestr , OHG. bl\'best , and fr. a verb akin to Icel. bl\'besa to blow, OHG. bl\'83san , Goth. bl<?/san (in comp.); all prob. from the same root as E. blow . See Blow to eject air.] 1. A violent gust of wind.

And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts ; His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill. Thomson.

2. A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast .

&hand; The terms hot blast and cold blast are employed to designate whether the current is heated or not heated before entering the furnace. A blast furnace is said to be in blast while it is in operation, and out of blast when not in use.

3. The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.

4. The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.

One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott.

The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. Bryant.

5. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.

By the blast of God they perish. Job iv. 9.

Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast . Shak.

6. The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose. "Large blasts are often used."

Tomlinson.

7. A flatulent disease of sheep.

Blast furnace , a furnace, usually a shaft furnace for smelting ores, into which air is forced by pressure. -- Blast hole , a hole in the bottom of a pump stock through which water enters. -- Blast nozzle , a fixed or variable orifice in the delivery end of a blast pipe; -- called also blast orifice . -- In full blast , in complete operation; in a state of great activity. See Blast , n. , 2. [Colloq.]

Blast <Xpage=153>

Blast , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blasted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blasting .] 1. To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.

Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. Gen. xii. 6.

2. Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character .

I'll cross it, though it blast me. Shak.

Blasted with excess of light. T. Gray.

3. To confound by a loud blast or din.

Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's ear. Shak.

4. To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks .

Blast <Xpage=153>

Blast , v. i. 1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom .

2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. [Obs.]

Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste . Chaucer.

Blasted <Xpage=153>

Blast"ed (?) , a. 1. Blighted; withered.

Upon this blasted heath. Shak .

2. Confounded; accursed; detestable.

Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott.

3. Rent open by an explosive.

The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.

Blastema <Xpage=153>

Blas*te"ma (?) , n. ; pl. Blastemata (#) . [Gr. <?/ bud, sprout.] (Biol.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

Blastemal <Xpage=153>

Blas*te"mal (?) , a. (Biol.) Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Blastematic <Xpage=153>

Blas`te*mat"ic (?) , a. (Biol.) Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

Blaster <Xpage=153>

Blast"er (?) , n. One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

Blastide <Xpage=153>

Blas"tide (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ sprout, fr. <?/ to grow.] (Biol.) A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

Blasting <Xpage=153>

Blast"ing (?) , n. 1. A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. Amos iv. 9.

2. The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.

Blastment <Xpage=153>

Blast"ment (?) , n. A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.]

Shak.

Blastocarpous <Xpage=153>

Blas`to*car"pous (?) , a. [Gr. <?/ sprout, germ + <?/ fruit.] (Bot.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove.

Brande & C.

Blastoc</le <Xpage=153>

Blas"to*c<?/le (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ sprout + <?/ hollow.] (Biol.) The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity.

Blastocyst <Xpage=153>

Blas"to*cyst (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ sprout + E. cyst .] (Biol.) The germinal vesicle.

Blastoderm <Xpage=153>

Blas"to*derm (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ sprout + E. derm .] (Biol.) The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.

Blastodermatic, Blastodermic <Xpage=153>

Blas`to*der*mat"ic (?) , Blas`to*der"mic (?) , a. Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.

Blastogenesis <Xpage=153>

Blas`to*gen"e*sis (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ sprout + E. genesis .] (Biol.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

Blastoid <Xpage=153>

Blas"toid (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) One of the Blastoidea.

Blastoidea <Xpage=153>

Blas*toid"e*a (?) , n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/ sprout + -oid .] (Zo\'94l.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

Blastomere <Xpage=153>

Blas"to*mere (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ sprout + -mere .] (Biol.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum.

Balfour.

Blastophoral, Blastophoric <Xpage=153>

Blas`toph"o*ral (?) , Blas`to*phor"ic (?) , a. Relating to the blastophore.

Blastophore <Xpage=153>

Blas"to*phore (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ sprout + <?/ to bear.] (Biol.) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.

Blastopore <Xpage=153>

Blas"to*pore (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ sprout + E. pore .] (Biol.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron. [See Illust . of Invagination .]

Balfour.

Blastosphere <Xpage=153>

Blas"to*sphere (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ sprout + E. sphere .] (Biol.) The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. [See Illust . of Invagination .]

Blastostyle <Xpage=153>

Blas"to*style (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ sprout, bud + <?/ a pillar.] (Zo\'94l.) In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea , and Athecata .

Blast pipe <Xpage=153>

Blast" pipe` (?) . The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

Blastula <Xpage=153>

Blas"tu*la (?) , n. [NL., dim. of Gr. <?/ a sprout.] (Biol.) That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

Blastule <Xpage=153>

Blas"tule (?) , n. (Biol.) Same as Blastula .

Blasty <Xpage=153>

Blast"y (?) , a. 1. Affected by blasts; gusty.

2. Causing blast or injury. [Obs.]

Boyle.

Blat <Xpage=153>

Blat (?) , v. i. To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately. [Low]

Blat <Xpage=153>

Blat , v. t. To utter inconsiderately. [Low]

If I have anything on my mind, I have to blat it right out. W. D. Howells.

Blatancy <Xpage=153>

Bla"tan*cy (?) , n. Blatant quality.

Blatant <Xpage=153>

Bla"tant (?) , a. [Cf. Bleat .] Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone."

R. H. Dana.

A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser.

Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

Blatantly <Xpage=153>

Bla"tant*ly , adv. In a blatant manner.

Blatherskite <Xpage=153>

Blath"er*skite (?) , n. A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.]

Barllett.

Blatter <Xpage=153>

Blat"ter (?) , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blattered (#) .] [L. blaterare to babble: cf. F. blat\'82rer to bleat.] To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered ."

Jeffrey.

They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

Blatteration <Xpage=153>

Blat`ter*a"tion (?) , n. [L. blateratio a babbling.] Blattering.

Blatterer <Xpage=153>

Blat"ter*er (?) , n. One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

Blattering <Xpage=153>

Blat"ter*ing , n. Senseless babble or boasting.

Blatteroon <Xpage=153>

Blat`ter*oon" (?) , n. [L. blatero , -onis .] A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such blatteroons ."

Howell.

Blaubok <Xpage=153>

Blau"bok (?) , n. [D. blauwbok .] (Zo\'94l.) The blue buck. See Blue buck , under Blue .

Blay <Xpage=153>

Blay (?) , n. [AS. bl<?/ge , fr. bl<?/c , bleak, white; akin to Icel. bleikja , OHG. bleicha , G. bleihe . See Bleak , n. & a. ] (Zo\'94l.) A fish. See Bleak , n.

Blaze <Xpage=153>

Blaze (bl&amac;z) , n. [OE. blase , AS. bl\'91se , blase ; akin to OHG. blass whitish, G. blass pale, MHG. blas torch, Icel. blys torch; perh. fr. the same root as E. blast . Cf. Blast , Blush , Blink .] 1. A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled."

Croly.

2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun .

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! Milton.

3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath."

Shak.

For what is glory but the blaze of fame? Milton.

4. [Cf. D. bles ; akin to E. blaze light.] A white spot on the forehead of a horse.

5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.

Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. Carlton.

In a blaze , on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated. -- Like blazes , furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear."

Poem in Essex dialect.

&hand; In low language in the U. S., blazes is frequently used of something extreme or excessive, especially of something very bad; as, blue as blazes .

Neal.

Syn. -- Blaze , Flame . A blaze and a flame are both produced by burning gas. In blaze the idea of light rapidly evolved is prominent, with or without heat; as, the blaze of the sun or of a meteor. Flame includes a stronger notion of heat; as, he perished in the flames .

Blaze <Xpage=153>

Blaze , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blazed (#) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blazing .] 1. To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes .

2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.

And far and wide the icy summit blazed . Wordsworth.

3. To be resplendent.

Macaulay.

To blaze away , to discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used ( fig .) of speech or action. [Colloq.]

Blaze <Xpage=153>

Blaze , v. t. 1. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.

I found my way by the blazed trees. Hoffman.

2. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path .

Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott.

Blaze <Xpage=153>

Blaze , v. t. [OE. blasen to blow; perh. confused with blast and blaze a flame, OE. blase . Cf. Blaze , v. i. , and see Blast .] 1. To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.

On charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok.

To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.

2. (Her.) To blazon. [Obs.]

Peacham.

Blazer <Xpage=153>

Blaz"er (?) , n. One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. " Blazers of crime."

Spenser.

Blazing <Xpage=153>

Blaz"ing , a. Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.

Sir W. Scott.

Blazing star . (a) A comet. [Obs.] (b) A brilliant center of attraction. (c) (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Cham\'91lirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa ; and Aletris farinosa , called also colicroot and star grass .

Blazon <Xpage=153>

Bla"zon (?) , n. [OE. blason , blasoun , shield, fr. F. blason coat of arms, OF. shield, from the root of AS. bl\'91se blaze, i . e ., luster, splendor, MHG. blas torch See Blaze , n. ] 1. A shield. [Obs.]

2. An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.

Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. Sir W. Scott.

3. The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.

Peacham.

4. Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.

Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company. Collier.

Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon . Shak.

Blazon <Xpage=153>

Bla"zon , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blazoned (#) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blazoning (#) .] [From blazon , n.; confused with 4th blaze : cf. F. blasonner .] 1. To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.

Thyself thou blazon'st . Shak.

There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow. Trumbull.

To blazon his own worthless name. Cowper.

2. To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.

3. (Her.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.

The coat of , arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English. Addison.

Blazon <Xpage=153>

Bla"zon , v. i. To shine; to be conspicuous. [R.]

Blazoner <Xpage=153>

Bla"zon*er (?) , n. One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald.

Burke.

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Blazonment <Xpage=154>

Bla"zon*ment (?) , n. The act or blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.

Blazonry <Xpage=154>

Bla"zon*ry , n. 1. Same as Blazon , 3.

The principles of blazonry . Peacham.

2. A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings.